The Palestinian Authority makes no attempt to educate its people towards peace and coexistence with Israel. On the contrary, from every possible platform it repeatedly rejects Israel's right to exist, presents the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, depicts the establishment of Israel as an act of imperialism, and perpetuates a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all. Israel's destruction is said to be both inevitable and a Palestinian obligation.

The following description of Israel's founding in a Palestinian schoolbook represents the dominant dogma about Israel:

"Palestine’s war ended with a catastrophe that is unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine … and established the so-called State of Israel."
[Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism, grade 12, p. 104]

This official PA map of "Palestine” was broadcast on PA TV in September 2011. The map includes both the PA areas and all of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) wrapped in the Palestinian flag - a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty over the whole area - and has a key through it, symbolizing ownership. Similar maps presenting all of Israel as "Palestine" appear in Palestinian schoolbooks and are shown regularly on PA TV.

"Palestine" replaces Israel

The Palestinian Authority paints a picture - both verbally and visually - of a world in which Israel does not exist. Children’s educational TV teaches that Palestine currently is a "state" (Arabic "dawla" = state) covering 27,000 sq. km - i.e., an area that includes all of Israel (the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip total only 6220 sq. km). Moreover, all Israel’s cities and infrastructure are referred to as "Palestinian": “Palestinian ports ... [are] Haifa, Jaffa, Ashkelon, Eilat, Ashdod, and Gaza". [PA TV (Fatah), Sept. 1 2008].

Maps provide visual reinforcement for this perception: Israel does not exist on any map; its area is marked as "Palestine." Maps showing the entire area of Israel covered with the Palestinian flag are routinely displayed at official PA events.

This educational documentary, depicting all parts of Israel as “Palestine," has been broadcast repeatedly on PA TV (Fatah) from 2007 – Oct 1, 2010:
“The West Bank and Gaza have another section in Palestine which is the Palestinian coast that spreads along the [Mediterranean] sea, from …Ashkelon in the south up to Haifa, in the Carmel Mountains. Haifa is a well-known Palestinian port. [Haifa] enjoyed a respected status among Arabs and Palestinians especially before it fell to the ‘occupation’ [Israel] in 1948. To its north, we find Acre. East of Acre, we reach a city with history and importance, the city of Tiberias, near a famous lake, the lake of Tiberias [Kinneret- sea of Galilee]. Jaffa, an ancient coastal city, is the bride of the sea, and Palestine’s gateway to the world.”

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Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, Aug. 8, 2017

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, which receives money from the PA Budget

A drawing at a summer camp showed a Palestinian flag dripping with blood with the Dome of the Rock above it and the outline of the PA map of "Palestine" (to the right) that presents all of Israel as "Palestine." Text on the map: "We are all a unified homeland." The names of Palestinian cities are written around the map as well as the names of Israeli cities including: "Jaffa," "Acre," "Tal Al-Rabia (i.e., Tel Aviv)," "Haifa," "Beit Shean," and "Tiberias."Click to view bulletin

Text and image posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch

Posted text:
"Proud Taqua
Praise to the Martyrs (Shahids)"

The image shows PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at top right, Yasser Arafat at top left, and the Fatah logo between them which includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas. In the center of the image is the PA map of "Palestine" with the Dome of the Rock at its center, and at the bottom right are two terrorists from the village of Taqua: Muhammad Tanouh who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers, and Muhammad Jibril who rammed his car into an Israeli soldier and attempted to stab other soldiers. At the bottom left a masked rioter is seen wearing a Fatah headband and holding a rock in his hand.

The article includes a picture of PA Minister of Education Sabri Saidam holding an honorary plaque featuring the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas.

Headline: “The [PA] Ministry of Education honored those who excelled in the matriculation [exams] in Nablus”
“The [PA] Ministry of Education and Higher Education yesterday [Aug. 5, 2017], through the Nablus Education Directorate (i.e., under the PA Ministry of Education) and with the participation of the United Parent Council, honored the students who excelled in the matriculation exams of 2017 in the directorate, and this was under the auspices and with the participation of [PA] Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Sabri Saidam…
At the end of the ceremony, gifts of appreciation were distributed to the students who excelled, and the minister and those who assisted at the ceremony and helped the ministry to successfully implement the matriculation exams were honored.”Click to view bulletin

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Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, Aug. 4, 2017

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, which receives money from the PA General Budget

Posted text: “From raw materials in the surroundings, the boys and girls of hope create the map of the homeland”

The images show children creating a large sculpture in the shape of the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas. The sculpture is painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag, symbolizing Palestinian political sovereignty over all of Israel in addition to the PA areas. It features a Palestinian flag at its base and a large key symbolizing so-called "right of return" of Palestinian refugees to Israel. On the wall are pictures of Yasser Arafat and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.Click to view bulletin

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement’s Nablus Branch
Posted text: “Pictures from the ceremony honoring the high school students in Nablus”

One of the pictures shows PA Minister of Education and Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam holding an honorary plaque featuring the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas.

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Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, Aug. 2, 2017

Posted text: “Central [West Bank] Council crews continued their field visits to the [summer] camps of the [different] districts: Jerusalem, Jericho, the Jordan Valley, and Ramallah and El-Bireh, according to the program that was planned in advance… In Jericho, a visit was held at the We Will Advance Together [Summer] Camp, which the Pioneers of the Future School organized in the Katf [Al-Wad] branch with the participation of 70 campers aged 13-17 of both genders. The campers were divided into groups bearing the names of cities from the occupied Palestinian Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel), such as: Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Tiberias, and Nazareth.”Click to view bulletin

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Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, Aug. 2, 2017

Images and text shared on the Facebook page of the National Committee for Summer Camps, which receives money from the PA Budget

At a camp organized by the National Committee for Summer Camps, a drawing of the PA's map of "Palestine" was accompanied by the following text:

Text next to map: "Palestine
Location: The continent of Asia, eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Territory: 27,009 square kilometers (the combined size of Israel and the PA areas is roughly 27,000 square kilometers -Ed.)
Borders of Palestine: Lebanon on the north
The Gulf of Aqaba and Egypt on the south
Jordan on the east
The Mediterranean Sea on the west"Click to view bulletin

Significantly, the text's alternative "facts" reiterate the PA message that Israel doesn't exist or will not exist in the future. The description of "Palestine's" territory as 27,000 square kilometers includes the area of all of Israel in addition to the PA areas. The West Bank and Gaza together are 6,220 square kilometers. The description of "Palestine's" borders is also wrong, as it is Israel that borders Lebanon and the Gulf of Aqaba.

The image shows an Arab woman engaged in agricultural work on the left, the Al-Aqsa Mosque with Palestinian flags above it on the right, and in the middle the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas. In the upper left corner appears the pattern of the keffiyeh (Arab headdress).

Text in post and in yellow on image: “We remain as long as the hyssop and olive trees remain”

Text in red on image: “Good morning, a morning of the beautiful homeland”

Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch

The image shows terrorist Muhammad Tanouh, who tried to stab Israeli soldiers, standing next to a painting of the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas, in the colors of the Palestinian flag.

Posted text: “O those going to Martyrdom-death (Shahada), this is not goodbye!
#Congratulations_on_the_Martyrdom-death O #Hero
All the mercy on your pure soul, O Muhammad [Tanouh]”

Muhammad Tanouh – a Palestinian terrorist who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at the entrance to the village of Taqua, south of Bethlehem, on July 20, 2017, and was shot and killed by them.

"Oh bird, take me to [my] homeland
Color my eyelids with the soil of Palestine
Send greetings to Acre and to the Upper Galilee
To Bir Zeit, Haifa, Tira and Ayn Ghazal (Moshav Ofer)
To Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza and Jabalya
To Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin
To Khan Yunis, Rafah and Qalqilya
To Lod, Tubas and Hebron
To Be'er Sheva -- every [Bedouin] tribe
To Tulkarm, Sila and Burqin
To Tiberias, Umm Al-Fahm and Beit Shean
To Tzippori, Lubya (Kibbutz Lavi) and Tur'an
To Nazareth and Safed of [Mount] Canaan
To Al-Shajara (Moshav Ilaniya), El-Bireh and Hittin (Moshav Arbel)
Oh bird, take me to [my] homeland
Color my eyelids with the soil of Palestine" Click to view video

The article includes a picture of Palestinian journalist Anan Shehadeh presenting a plaque of honor to Palestinian Ambassador to Algeria Dr. Luay Issa. The plaque features the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas. Shehadeh’s shirt also has the PA map of “Palestine” on it in the colors of the Palestinian flag.Text on plaque: “Jerusalem is ours”

“At the Palestinian embassy building in Algiers, Palestinian Ambassador to Algeria Dr. Luay Issa and the embassy staff welcomed members of the delegation of the Palestinian team of senior football players that arrived in Algeria two days ago, on Sunday [July 2, 2017]…
[Palestinian] journalist Anan Shehadeh gave a speech in which he thanked the ambassador and embassy staff, and presented a plaque of honor to the ambassador.”

Official PA TV program One Day We Will Return, on the Al-Bas refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon

Official PA TV host: “Where are you from in Palestine?”Al-Bas refugee camp resident Adnan Hassan Al-Khalil: “I’m from Tiberias.”Host: “What do you ask [of Allah] in the honored month [of Ramadan]?”Adnan Hassan Al-Khalil: “The first aspiration for all of the Muslims is the liberation of Jerusalem from the hands of the Jews and Zionists who are stealing it… thanks to the fighter and Jihadist forces.”

Headline: "A settler threatens to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a WhatsApp group"
"Israeli sources reported today (Thursday) [June 8, 2017] that a Jewish settler from the settlement of Bnei Brak (i.e., an Israeli city in central Israel) threatened to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a WhatsApp group.
The [Israeli] newspaper Israel Today noted that the Tel Aviv police received a complaint on a threat to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque on WhatsApp, and immediately opened an investigation until it succeeded in reaching the settler that published the threat…
A police representative said during the discussion on the suspect’s detention that his action was serious, and that the threat to blow up the site constitutes a strategic danger…
The judge extended the detention of the settler by three days and requested to send him for psychiatric evaluation."

Official PA TV program Ramadan in Jerusalem, hosting Director of the Taj tourism company Bashar Al-Mashni

Director of the Taj tourism company Bashar Al-Mashni: “Part of the activities that we are doing is an attempt to strengthen the connection with members of our people in the occupied Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel), in the lands that were occupied in 1948, by organizing regular tours for Palestinians from the Interior so that they will come to Jerusalem on weekly tours.”

Official PA TV program The King of Cash, a special quiz show for the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, June 3, 2017

Official PA TV host 1: “What is the border [city] between Palestine and Syria? The options are Rosh HaNikra (i.e., an Israeli city on the border with Lebanon), Umm Al-Rashrash (i.e., Eilat, the southernmost Israeli city), or Aita Al-Shaab (i.e., a Lebanese village on the border with Israel). Rosh HaNikra? Rosh HaNikra?”Official PA TV host 2: “Do you see my finger (holds up one finger to indicate the first option, Rosh HaNikra –Ed.)? Do you see us on TV?”Host 1: “Rosh HaNikra? Abir (i.e., the caller’s name), what is your answer? I will repeat the question: What is the border [city] between Palestine and Syria?”Host 2: “Can I interfere? Rosh HaNikra (sic., Rosh HaNikra is on the Lebanese border). Congratulations!”
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Excerpt of op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: "The round of violence in the '48 [territories]"
"The cities, towns, and villages in the Galilee, Triangle (i.e., a concentration of Israeli-Arab towns and villages in northern Israel), and Negev, and on the coast in the ’48 [territories] (i.e., Israel) are witness to a round of acts of violence that is escalating…
The latest incident occurred two days ago [June 2, 2017] in Nazareth, where one victim was killed and six people were injured as a result of an argument between two families. Such a case can be dealt with, despite the large number of victims. However, the identity of those committing the other crimes in the rest of the towns and villages is still unknown, and the background of the crimes is uncertain – even though the reasonable assessment is that the perpetrator was from among the Palestinian people. Nonetheless, the identification of the perpetrator is not sufficient to solve these crimes, as hidden hands from the Israeli security establishment are behind them…
The matter does not end with the Israeli police and its negligence in pursuing the criminals…
There are additional parties, for which the Israeli security and political establishment is responsible in order to realize aspirations and goals that are not hidden from the eyes of the members of the [Palestinian] people in the Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel)..."

Palestinian boy: “He joined the Arab folk dance with a rifle in his hand,
He made a vow and fulfilled the promise:
Palestine, my land, will remain decorated,
My land – from Aqaba (i.e., Jordanian city adjacent to Eilat, the southernmost point of Israel) to Rosh HaNikra (city in northern Israel).”Click to view video

Palestinian contestant Muhammad Assaf on Arab Idol: "Oh flying bird, circling round,
My eyes protect you and Allah keeps you safe
By Allah, oh traveling [bird], I burn with envy
My country Palestine is beautiful
Turn to Safed and then to Tiberias,
And send regards to the sea of Acre and Haifa
Don't forget Nazareth - the Arab fortress,
And tell Beit Shean about its people's return
By Allah, oh traveling [bird], I burn with envy
My country Palestine is beautiful." Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Note: This song has been broadcast in slightly different versions on PA TV. The full lyrics of this version of the song name the following places in Israel: Safed, Tiberias, Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth, and Beit Shean.
The song originally aired March 31, 2013. It was broadcast numerous times since then, most recently on April 28, 2015 on PA TV and on May 21, 2017 on Fatah-run Awdah TV.